APS eLearning: Impact and Results

Achieving Results and Improving Patient Safety

At APS we are on a mission to make care better and safer and to support caregivers through transformative education. Medicine and the health care delivery system are changing fast. To achieve the goal of continuous improvement, clinicians will need a whole new way of staying on top of best practices that goes beyond simple risk management. There is a flood of new information coming out of the top research organizations every day. APS is committed to bringing the most important new knowledge to you continuously, conveniently, and engagingly throughout your career.

Partnering with some of the nation’s leading providers of professional liability insurance and through coordinated regional purchasing initiatives, APS has created courses that have become a central element to comprehensive patient safety initiatives at hundreds of hospitals across the country. Please review the case examples below to learn more:

• Hospital Corporation of America:Working with the Hospital Corporation of America, the APS eLearning programs have helped generate a 48% decline in obstetrical claims and a 52% reduction in claims payouts.
• Harvard's Risk Management Foundation: Since implementing a system-wide perinatal safety program, which included APS curriculum as the foundation, CRICO saw a 62% decrease in high severity cases based on malpractice carrier data.

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